Here is my attempt to create a ‘holding pen’ for comments from canvassers in an attempt to begin centralizing ‘our’ findings from working on the ground. I have also included an extremely rough potential canvassing tool we might use to try to come up with some sort of statistics.

Please add your stories below until such time as I am possibly directed to discontinue this attempt.

I have attached a draft of sample questions we could consider using as part of an unofficial grassroots canvassing sheet (a veritable paper trail). Anyone who has any type of information on compiling something like this?
Canvassing Unofficial

From lance:

This weekend our group of five volunteers on Sunday knocked on about 100 doors, spoke to sixteen people, got three signed pledge cards, found everyone else we spoke to undecided.

I know of another group of two people that did about the same numbers, also with only undecideds beyond their three Obama pledge cards. They spoke to 18 people.

In Nevada about a month ago, I also canvassed and personally got three pledge cards from undecided voters. Spoke to maybe 200 undecided Democrats.

To this date, I have never gone to a single door and found one solid Hillary supporter. I find most people barely starting to pay attention to the race or else already in line with Obama

Lance again:

When I canvassed in Nevada I talked to at least 200 Democrats, a few Obama supporters signed cards and the rest undecided. Not ONE Hillary Supporter. The other volunteers had similiar experiences. This weekend I canvassed Sunday in my local Monrovia neighborhood. We spoke to maybe 20 people. Again, not ONE solid Hillary supporter. This time, we got three Obama pledge cards and every other single person said they hadn’t looked into it enough to make a decision. It was a theme echoed by the other volunteers here as well.

I also had a similiar experience at a local Community Foothills Democrat meeting. 30 people in attendance. At the end, people got up to say whom they supported. 2 Obama supporters, 1 Edwards supporter. And the rest of the room, mostly middle aged or older women, were still undecided, except the secretary of the club, who was a Hillary supporter.
If you actually read that NH poll that had Hillary 30 points ahead, you can see that 80 percent of the voters polled, out of a group of like 400, remain undecided or leaning only in a “soft”way toward a candidate. What that translates to is that people already know about Hillary but they’re not convinced by her. She’s a known commodity and if you like her, you already do. As time passes, more will investigate Obama. There is a massive media blitz underway to make Hillary seem unstoppable. It’s the only tool she has at her disposal. The corporate media knows that if she’s the nominee, the race will be close and the congress will remain divided due to down balloting, when Republicans check every Republican on the ballot. She may win and they can check her, or more likely she will lose to Guiliani because she will motivate the Repub base. This is why Murdock supports her, as he knows she is the most pro big business of likely winners and won’t change the corporate laws the way Obama surely will to enact some fairness in media. The bias in media is exactly what will elect Hillary if anything will.

from Murphy:

this exactly mirrors my experience Saturday in Monrovia, which is a more GOP-leaning town (of course, we were only canvassing the Dems and DTSes). Only one person was strong Hillary; several strong Obamas and no one mentioned Edwards. Most (90%?) were still undecided and glad of the literature and wbsite to educate themselves more.

BTW, I heard a great (short) story from one woman: Her daughter goes to preschool with a child whose mom went to Elementary School with Barack in Indonesia (wow!) and that mom raves about him, can’t say enough great things about him. She said she could tell even back then that there was something special about him.

I’m hoping I get to knock on that woman’s door!!

From Nikki:

For info on northeastern Nevada contact Roger Low at rlow@barackobama.com. He is the field director there. I did the “Drive for Change” there on October 6^th. Theo and I worked on a precinct that was less developed for the campaign than others. We ran into a lot of undecideds. They were easily swayed away from Hillary even if they were leaning towards her at first. We did more to get people to take a closer look at Obama and to start paying attention to the race early because all the dates are getting pushed up. It hasn’t sunk into a lot of people’s heads that their votes will count in a huge way in terms the momentum in the race. They are very much a working class community and warmed up to the idea of empowerment by this process.